Re: futexes: Still infinite loop in get_futex_key() in 2.6.31-rc4

Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-29T09:59:14Z

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:57 +0200, Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 08:22 +0200, Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 15:36 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Bugger.. how easy it is to reproduce?
> >
> > Okay, my colleague found the right combination of scripts, take the two
> > attached, run them both a couple of times in parallel for some hours,
> > and get a stuck ps. This happens both on an old 2.6.29.1 I happened to
> > still have on one machine as with 2.6.31-rc4. Both of them dual-core
> > Opterons as the original one. If you want further tracebacks or other
> > information, let me know.
>
> Forget about null.pl even, just run pees.pl twice and a top to watch it,
> has worked for me within less than an hour several times now.

Thanks, I'll give it a go..